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From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] CML 1.9.2 is available
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:19:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0651E5.10908@reutershealth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011129060048.A11216@thyrsus.com>

Eric S. Raymond wrote:


> Keith has pointed out a weakness in the language -- there's no way to make
> the default value of a choices menu dependent on the architecture (an issue
> for things like kcore format).  I am meditating on this.


Suggestion: allow a derived symbol as the default.  It must be possible
to prove that the value of this symbol is going to be one of the
choices.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-29 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-29 11:00 CML 1.9.2 is available Eric S. Raymond
2001-11-29 15:19 ` John Cowan [this message]
2001-11-29 16:30   ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond

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